Stop this creepy trend

Lincoln JournalStar ^ | 8/24/09 | Lincoln JournalStar Editorial

[RepRivFarm]

Nebraska is gun country, the sort of place where one of the newsroom hunters sometimes brings deer jerky from a white-tail buck he shot himself to share with colleagues.

We have no problems with responsible gun ownership.

But the sight of gun-carrying citizens and protesters gathering near locations where President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak creeps us out.

Stop it.

[goodnesswins]

Hmmmm...was them the rules when we had President Bush...do you know?

[lentulusgracchus]

“Liberals” can’t be trusted with guns, because they are inherently immature.

They project this on others, and think that no one should be trusted with guns.

Money post. BTTT.

I have to agree with WOSG, though, that it is not customary to display arms around legislators and that it would be a good idea to refrain voluntarily in non-crime areas from exercising this particular right -- while yielding nothing at all on the right.

After all, when it hit the fan on the University of Texas campus years ago, the sniper on the clock tower was quickly suppressed by all the armed civilians who produced their long guns from their gun-racks (open display was the rule). It was noted after the event was over, that the sniper did not succeed in killing another person after he began to receive accurate return fire from dozens of Texans.

HYPOTHETICAL

Something to think about: If Squeaky Fromme showed up at Obama's next rally and started shooting, and a bunch of armed civilians began shooting back at her, would the Secret Service snipers then feel obliged to kill all the armed civilians they could see?

We need some more explicit understanding of who's a good guy when bullets begin flying and everybody grabs his iron.

If no modus vivendi emerges, then screw the modus vivendi, we go back to asserting our rights. Otherwise the liberals will use our own impulse for moderation to screw us to the wall ideologically.

[lentulusgracchus]

The black guy with the gun was a set up by the Democrats, it is one more nail in the casket of gun ownership. The left wants to take all the guns and some dip wipe showing up with one is just what they live to see

I've seen other posts that say he was a Ron Paul supporter, a libertarian who openly asserted the Second Amendment as his reason for carrying, even near the President.

So do you have a link? This is still a gray area -- who was this guy and what was he trying to prove?

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HYPOTHETICAL No.2

What if Obama's Secret Service detail had gone out into the crowd, confronted the man, and demanded his weapon "on principle" -- trying to establish a new "principle" that nobody has 2A rights around the President, when SecTreas says otherwise?

So then does the guy have to go to jail to assert his right? What if they get tactical with him and offer to shoot him on the spot if he doesn't surrender his weapon? What sort of "principle" would that be a precedent for? Or would the guy have to die to sustain our rights?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

It is not really guns that are so scary to Liberals, it's just the fact that those who have them cannot be easily controlled by Fascist governments.

What Liberals SHOULD fear are bullets. They only hear them coming when they are not the target. Yet that is....

[Pharmboy]

That’s a good question...I did not even think about that. I will ask him if that’s always been the case with every president.

[wolfcreek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeNcLn4FBM

These guys are pushing the issue and they are correct about the tyranical gov.

[humblegunner]

That “journalist” bite you?

[redgolum]

Must be an out of state student.